First, I'm happy to hear you're getting a Mac. The primary reason for why people don't like the MacOS (and this is true of any OS, for that matter) is that they don't get to spend enough time with it. Give that thing a whirl for a while, download some utilities, buy a license for Kaliedoscope (http://www.kaleidoscope.net/), give BBedit, MailSmith, and FileBuddy a few spins around the block. There are hundreds of other utilities and enhancements to the MacOS that you can check out.
Second, while its unlikely that your 3400c will have been upgraded (a complex mobo swapping procedure as there are no CPU upgrades) the 240MHz version is pretty speedy. My wife uses here 7300/200 daily and we've had MacOS x running on it. That's a 200MHz 604e, btw. If you are still interested in running X, fetch a copy of Ryan Rempel's killer XpOSfacto (http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/) utility. Finally, you can install any one of the numerous 60x and 740/7400 compatible Linux distros. The ones I know of OTTOMH are SuSE, Mandrake, Linux PPC and YellowDog. Then again, maybe you could get a 1400cs that's upgraded to a G3/400 2:1 :) Tyler At 12:46 PM 2/14/2002, you wrote: >Greetings, >Anyone have any experience installing/using Linux on Macs (especially >Powerbooks)? I'm going to get my hands on an older Powerbook 3400c >tomorrow, and i'd really really like to put Linux on it. I will say >that my experience with Macs in general is very very little. I've used >them on a few random occasions, and utterly disliked Mac OS. >I've already looked at the relevant sections of linux-laptop.net but the >bulk of the info is just tips & suggestions, not really guides. >I've found that this little guy is actually supported in SuSE-7.3, which >might be a good thing. >Anyone with tips, or useful websites would be appreciated. > >thanks, >Lonni > >===== >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > . > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! >http://greetings.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
